How to format your references using the Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Mysak LA. 2001. Oceanography. Patterns of Arctic circulation. Science. 293(5533):1269–1270.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yanega GM, Rubega MA. 2004. Feeding mechanisms: Hummingbird jaw bends to aid insect capture. Nature. 428(6983):615.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hansel DE, Eipper BA, Ronnett GV. 2001. Neuropeptide Y functions as a neuroproliferative factor. Nature. 410(6831):940–944.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Skrott Z, Mistrik M, Andersen KK, Friis S, Majera D, Gursky J, Ozdian T, Bartkova J, Turi Z, Moudry P, et al. 2017. Alcohol-abuse drug disulfiram targets cancer via p97 segregase adaptor NPL4. Nature. 552(7684):194–199.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Carroll N. 2013. Minerva’s Night Out. Oxford: A John Wiley & Sons.

An edited book

Bonvalet C. 2015. Renewing the Family: A History of the Baby Boomers. Clément C, Ogg J, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Koge H, Ito Y, Nakano K. 2014. A GPU Implementation of Clipping-Free Halftoning Using the Direct Binary Search. In: Sun X-H, Qu W, Stojmenovic I, Zhou W, Li Z, Guo H, Min G, Yang T, Wu Y, Liu L, editors. Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing: 14th International Conference, ICA3PP 2014, Dalian, China, August 24-27, 2014 Proceedings, Part I. Cham: Springer International Publishing; p. 57–70.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk.

Blog post

Andrews R. 2016. Neanderthals Completely Disappeared Just 3,000 Years After Their Population Peaked. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/neanderthals-completely-disappeared-3000-years-after-population-peaked/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office. 1976. Audit of Accounts at the U.S. Army Research and Development Command. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Tajer SA. 2010. Topics in MIMO networks [Doctoral dissertation]. New York, NY: Columbia University.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Otis J. 2016. A Blind Man Leans on His Faith as a Source of Encouragement. New York Times.:A24.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Mysak 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Mysak 2001; Yanega and Rubega 2004).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Yanega and Rubega 2004)
Three or more authors: (Skrott et al. 2017)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geomatics, Natural Hazards and Risk
ISSN (print)	1947-5705
ISSN (online)	1947-5713
Scope	General Earth and Planetary Sciences General Environmental Science